Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-04-21
Correspondence Of the Beacon.)
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1887.

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WASHINGTON, April Is, 1887.
Messrs Editors:-The Sunday laws
are agitating very much the citizens Of
tie Capital this week. A large portion
OF the community is fearful lest il
shall have to fast on the Sabbath or
else change its mode Of living. Wash
ington used to be called city of
boarding houses, but of late years has
been dubbed the city of eating houses.
The reason of this is that hundreds of
Government Clerks have found it
cheaper to rent rooms and take meals
out than to keep house, and as con-
sequence a number of eating houses
have sprung up and done a very pro-
ftabe business. The triumvirate
commission which governs the District
has sent forth the edict that not only
drinking saloons and places of business
shall he closed on Sunday but also
that milk and ice wagons shall not
run, and that eating houses shall shut
up. If this last provision is enforced
it will cause great inconvenience to
thousands Of persons who regularly
take their meals at these places and
Will cause the failure in business of
these enterprising men who are will
lug to cater to the palate for the hand
some returns received.
1t seems a pretty big fish story, but
still none the less true, that over GOO
600 herring have been brought from
the Potomac into Washington the
present week. This is the largest
number received for years past and is
due to the stringent laws prohil ting
the drawing of seines for fish during
the spawning season. 4 few years
ago the number of herring caught
became 50 small that epicures began
to fear that the delicacy of Potomac
Herring would be a thing of the past
The Fish Commission however had
salutary laws enacted, and the 6O0,-
coo herring a week is the result.
The President had tender heart
this week and so granted eight par
dons to persons convicted and i'm
prisoned for embezzling from the
mails breaking into Post Offices; rob-
bing the mails on the highways;
counterfeiting, and other crimes.
Cleveland has granted more pardons
than any President before him within
the memory OF man.
Already gossips are beginning to
talk of the Presidents summer trip.
1t is possible that he may take one
but still! You need not be surprised if
he stays at home. Mrs. Cleveland is
already located at Oak View and
Keeps very quiet seldom coming to the
City and almost as seldom as seeing
callers. She istaking a much needed
rest after the fatigues Of the social
season, and probably will not go with
the President should he feel the nee.
e>SIiy of taking recreation by leaving
the scenes of his busy official duties
and cares for brief period.
y number OF Congressman have
been IN town the past few DAYS and
most of them were interviewed. The
almost unanimous opioniou seemed to
he that Congress would be convened in
Special Session the first of October,
and would continue to sit until the
regular session in December.
Real estate speculation is running
high, and investors are making money
faster than at any time before in the
history of the City. Syndicates are
being formed composed in many in.
stance Of capitalists from the States,
and much suburban property has been
rletted and sold in lots on which the
investors have more than doubled
their money inside of three months.
Persons coming TO the City in the fall
and at the assembling of Congress will
hardly recognize the suburbs as so
many improvements will have been
made. H